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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Lamitan in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.9385S, 126.0306WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Lamitan in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 147.03 km (91 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000h8rz. Event ids that are associated: us1000h8rz. The temblor was picked up at 22:54:14 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/10/18 / 2018-10-08 14:54:14 / October 8, 2018 @ 2:54 pm. Exact location, longitude 126.0306° East, latitude 5.9385° North, depth = 147.03 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Malandag, Katangawan, Glan. Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 16 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Buayan (c. 14 600 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 39 km ESE of Lamitan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0306° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.9385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km ESE of Lamitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-08 14:54:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-09 14:48:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.21 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000h8rz Id of event.
Event Code 1000h8rz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h8rz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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